So a couple of things I learnt from listening to the A Reckoning at Bon Appetit podcast episode by Sporkful where they interviewed both Nikita Richardson and Sohla El-Waylly:
- Sohla repeatedly kept asking to get paid for her videos in literally every single zoom meeting every week with Matt Druckor and he strung her along for months saying that she’d get it the next day. So, all that myths about how people of colour and women get paid less because we don’t ask for more can fly right out the window, because Sohla asked repeatedly and they never paid her.
- Sohla says Matt Druckor is the reason why Priya was always pigeonholed into making only Indian dishes. I’ve heard a lot of people complaining and hating on Priya for that in the tags, so I really hope those people are thinking twice now, because it’s not her fault.
- Amanda Shapiro literally stole an article from Nikita Richardson and got paid for Nikita’s work (so, a Black woman’s months and months or work) and not only has she not addressed this or any other part of the controversy on her twitter (twitter.com/aswordmaven), but she has now been promoted to Interim EIC of Bon Appetit despite this! Also Nikita was never actually compensated for this work, they just told her they owed her.
